b 3 a 1 d 2 l 1 a 1 n 1 d 2 s 1
8 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun deeply eroded barren land
noun an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
originFrom earlier Bad Lands, calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota Makȟóšiča (from makȟá (“land”) + o- (attributive prefix) + šíča (“bad”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- badland 11
- sanddab 11
- adlands 9
- bandas 9
- adland 8
- aband 8
- balds 8
- banda 8
- bands 8
- blads 8
- bland 8
- alands 7